HOME secretary Amber Rudd is to consider holding a public inquiry into the Poppi Worthington case, the tot's MP said yesterday.
John Woodcock has demanded a full investigation into Poppi's death and why the police case was so badly handled.

Mr Woodcock, MP for Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, said: "I am pleased that the Home Secretary took time to see me.
"She made clear she recognises the community is reeling over Poppi's death and the terrible failings that surround it.
"Mrs Rudd pledged to consider urgently what steps she can take in the light of the inquest verdict and asked me to work with her Home Office team to try to make any action she takes as effective as possible.
"Ministers always stress they cannot direct the Crown Prosecution Service who we are praying will look at the case in a fresh light following the coroner's verdict.
"But the Home Secretary can act to help restore confidence in our policing system which has been badly damaged by this terrible affair.
"Poppi will probably never get justice because of grotesque failings into the police investigation into her death.
"But we owe it to her to campaign for a public inquiry that can expose all that has led us to this terrible day."
Poppi died in December 2012 after collapsing at her home in Barrow.
Coroner David Roberts ruled this week that her dad Paul Worthington, 50, sexually assaulted her shortly before her death.
She died from suffocation after he placed her in an unsafe sleeping position on his double bed after the assault, Mr Roberts said.
The Chief Constable of Cumbria Police at the time of her death yesterday hit out at two of his officers for failing the youngster.
Stuart Hyde, who retired a year after Poppi’s death, said the force's reputation had been dragged through the mud by the failings of the two detectives.
Detective Chief Inspector Mike Forrester and Detective Inspector Amanda Sadler were blasted by an independent inquiry for failing to secure vital evidence at the scene.
Mr Forrester retired before facing disciplinary proceedings and Mrs Sadler was demoted to the rank of sergeant before also retiring.
Mr Hyde said: "This was not the norm in Cumbria.
"This was not a broad representation of the constabulary.
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"People were not lazy or not doing things properly. This was just two years after Cumbria had conducted a very large investigation involving multiple scenes with the Derrick Bird shootings case.
"Good police officers throughout Cumbria will feel ashamed that their force has been dragged through the mud because of the actions of two individuals in this case."
Worthington was arrested eight months after Poppi died but the case against him was dropped because of a lack of evidence.
Police chiefs and prosecutors are now set to meet to reconsider the case following the coroner's ruling.
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